LICENCE RESTRICTIONS PUT BACK BY TRIBUNAL
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THE addition of the words-goads any distance " to a haulier's B licence was contested by the British Transport Commission when the Transport Tribunal sat in London last week. Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for the B.T.C., said the addition had been made by the West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority to a licence held by S. A. Cooper and Son, Crowle (Wares).
Previously Cooper's had been restricted to a 25-mile radius, except for cattle to and from Gloucester and Hereford markets. When the application was heard. the main evidence came from a farmer, whO wanted Cooper's to carry cows to Banbury and pears to Shepton Mallet.
The B.T.C. had no objection to these specific extensions, nor to the carriage of grain to Sauk, near Gloucester. But they opposed the blanket permission to carry goods anywhere, for which there was no evidence.
Mr. C. J. Roach, for Cooper's, told the Tribunal that there were numerous occasions when farmers wanted them to carry beasts or goods from markets, and the 25-mile radius was a severe limitation.
Mr. Hubert Hull, president, replied: " The evidence is very thin. I have a certain sympathy with you in agricultural districts, but there must be evidence."
He said the licence conditions would he altered to a 25-mile radius, with extensions for pears to Hereford and Shepton Mallet, livestock, to and from Gloucester, Hereford and Banbury, and grain to Saute.